as long as you like the act emblazoned on your t-shirt everything is ok? Why should race and sex be brought into it. People should chill out. Lenny Henry may be unfunny but at least he does good works for charity.

And I think that there was a general appeal of their music to people who maybe felt trodden/betrayed by society. But the fact is, that being white and the ethnic majority, we will never experience the same treatment as blacks do from anyone else.

I really like Public Enemy, but I don't feel like their lyrics speak to me on the level that they'd speak to, say, a young black american. So I guess sometimes I feel like I'm missing a lot of the point about them, in that I can't ever really feel genuinely righteously angry when Chuck D is raving and ranting. That makes me pretty sad.